Making Your Home Sustainable: A Guide to Retrofitting

Summary: Significantly reduced electricity and water bills; cooler rooms in summer and warmer rooms in winter; more internal light; sunshine in all rooms; increased property value; and a healthier planet. Sound good? Making Your Home Sustainable is a practical, easy-to-follow guide on how to modify your home to improve your bank balance, use less energy, increase comfort, and reduce your daily impact on the environment. Using... his own home as an example, author Derek Wrigley includes detailed descriptions, photographs and diagrams to show how the ideas are implemented and what the results will be from environmental, financial and aesthetic viewpoints. [read more]